Ian Freiburger

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School mattered because it provided the testing ground in which I learned ways to resist and navigate racism, the low expectations, the stereotypes, the spirit-murdering, all the forms of dark suffering, gender suffering, queer suffering, religious suffering, and class suffering. I learned that to succeed at school—by “succeed” I do not mean getting good grades but leaving every day with my darkness intact or only slightly bruised—I had to practice a politics of refusal, love my Blackness as an act of political resistance, and give them hell.
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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